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The SNP has a problem, stupidity, in fact, I was the first to diagnosis what I described as the ‘Hunter Virus’, I am sure if you do a google search you will find me blogging on this in the past. In the old days, pre 2007, the SNP scrapped along basically going nowhere content to spew in their sweat and juices; then the Westminster expenses scandal happened which changed everything. Westminster expenses scandal was a disaster for British politics, it confirmed what many people suspected for decades; there was a corrupt system and corrupt politicians milking it like a second tit.

A few idiots got put in jail; few scapegoats stakeout for the public to feast on via the Courts, a few convictions and some people got mediocre jail time. In 2007, Jack McConnell was leading what was a disaster of an administration, the public was getting fleeced on council tax and seeing no real benefits. The ground was sown by public anger for change, and change came, out goes the Labour Party and in comes the SNP under Salmond.

The people weren’t putting faith in the SNP, they wanted badly rid of Labour, the protest vote swung into action and the World turned! Protest votes sometimes can be a good thing; it reminds politicians that the public can switch on a dime. There were great expectations as Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon formed a double act, Alex adopted the jolly fat man routine, and Sturgeon was given a makeover to rain her mouth, it was the era of ‘fake caring’. The strategy was so successful, it lead to an SNP majority, of course it didn’t help with Scottish Labour doing nothing meaningful for the entire term from 2007 to 2011.

Now, after 10 years of failed government, right across the board, a failed attempt at Scottish independence and a failed attempt to stay in the EU, people are asking what the point of the SNP is exactly. 2014 showed that the people of Scotland aren’t going to vote for the Nationalist’s plans for an independent Scotland, and the rest of the ‘coalition of the bams’, they aren’t too appealing either.

To get back to the ‘Hunter Virus’, I coined this termed while in the SNP as a member, you for the most part never really get to see how low brow, petty and nasty party members are until you are signed into their ranks.

The public image doesn’t match the private image, and those who are SNP cult members aren’t the sharpest tools in the box, by any means, you can see this in education, health, law and order, and in general planning for the indyref.

Simple minded bastards!

Yes, simple minded bastards, who think that they are super intelligent and it’s you that are thick and can be manipulated all the time. The 2015 election was a protest vote, it was also needed, there were many ineffective politicians who should have been removed by unionist parties, and weren’t, so the public used the SNP as a vehicle for a protest vote. Most of those who lost their seats especially under Labour deserved to lose, and in many cases trash equally rubbish replaced them.
10 years is a long time to be in power especially when you don’t have any real achievements which have benefited the many in a real and useful fashion. It seems that as I mentioned before that Nicola Sturgeon’s task is to lead the SNP into the wilderness, she isn’t a leader of men. I said it loud and often, however, it seems other pundits are starting to come round to my view. I was interested in the comment:

“What’s the SNP got in common with the Bornean orangutan and the Giant Otter?”

The addon was:

“Well, if you believe some accounts, all three are practically extinct”.

Pollsters Populus are saying that unpopular Nicola Sturgeon’s party has started the slide towards doom and are on the “brink of collapse”.

James Kanagasooriam said:

“It is difficult to overstate how poor the SNP’s performance was in June’s general election.”

Yes, 2017 was a major disaster, it wasn’t just the loss of the 21 seats, it was the loss of thousands of votes, imagine losing in some cases 9000 votes in two years, you have to ask yourself hard questions, not just of the party but also of the candidate standing, what were they doing in that area which alienated so many.

In Glasgow, I supported Paul Sweeney who was the Labour Candidate in Glasgow North East, he won by 242 votes, the SNP Candidate was Anne McLaughlin, her campaign was poor, but that was par for SNP candidates right across the city, I am more interested in what she was doing in the two years prior to her defeat.

The SNP had a meteoric rise but they ran out of fuel, they ran out of ideas, and for the last three years, it has been really noticeable not just to the pundits but to the voters. Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t have good ideas; I mean…… a shitty baby box…… a tampax campaign, what a load of tosh!

You might have noticed Nicola Sturgeon trying to do a re-launch of her failed government, and if you hadn’t heard it, the Nationalists have wheeled out the word, and the word is ‘radical’, more tosh, more spin, at this point we are looking at a hung parliament for Holyrood next time round with an SNP minority.

The ‘Hunter Virus’ in the SNP hasn’t a cure, you can’t cure stupidity, recently there was talk of Sturgeon meaning a load of gits called the Scottish Indy Convention, blowhards who haven’t wised up yet either, the ‘new strategy’ is the same as the old strategy which is….. attack the Tories!

Didn’t work last in indyref 1 and certainly won’t work if there is an indyref 2, but will there be an indyref 2? If Holyrood goes to a hung parliament in 2021, the ball will be in the long grass for probably about 20 years. In the meantime, the SNP are like a shithouse rat frantically trying to escape their self created poo, the level is rising and each plop increases the panic!

Nicola Sturgeon has failed, she has reached her sell by date and is starting to hum, only a matter of time before she loses that second indyref vote and then she has nowhere to go but down.

Yesterday, I was blogging on the end of freedom of movement,
and that follows onto why we as the UK need a new immigration bill to fit in
with the country’s needs, Brexit was in part for many about the control of
immigration, that is and remains a legitimate position to adopt. Across Europe, the migrant crisis has been a disaster in so many
ways; it has changed the mindset of many people towards isolationism.

The EU gave us the European Convention on Human Rights, a note
worthy document which few could dispute in its general aims; however the
application of human rights has been fundamentally abused by some people to
circumvent justice. You can read story after story for multiple abuse that has
caused the British taxpayers millions of pounds as criminals use the
legislation to their own ends.

This case illustrates the point why we needed to leave the
EU, why we need full control of our own laws and why a new immigration bill is
necessary. Members of an Asian grooming gang are being given legal aid to fight
deportation. This case like so many cases involves Pakistani men who operated
as a grooming in Rochdale, these people
targeted young white children and systematically raped them, it was a vile
crime which shocked the nation. In order to attempt to avoid deportation back
to Pakistan,
these criminals have used the law to invoke Article 8 of the European
Convention on Human Rights which safeguards the right to family life. As these
people have been put in prison, their Article 8 rights have been suspended by
the law, they may have the right to a family life but they can’t access it due
to being locked up.

This begs the question, why if there is an Article 8 right
is anyone in prison?

The get into jail card in this case is Article 8.2, ‘There
shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right
except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic
society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic
well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the
protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and
freedoms of others’.

In legal terms, this plainly means that the Asian grooming
gang can be deported back to Pakistan,
as clearly the threshold of public safety as a benchmark has been reached. The
cost to the taxpayer to fund this abuse of the legal system has already topped more
than a £1million to unsuccessfully defend criminal charges.

It is clear that the new immigration must include measures
that any foreigner granted citizenship must maintain dual nationality by law if
granted permission to stay in this country, in the event of serious crime such
as rape, murder and other violent or serious offences after being convicted and
serving their sentences, there should be automatic deportation. People are
right to be outraged not just by the crimes of these men but by their moves to avoid
deportation.

I would have no hesitation in stripping them of their
British passports and send them back to Pakistan to send out the strongest
message possible. What is more disgusting about this case is that these men get
legal aid and Chris Gard and Connie Yates were denied any legal aid in their
case against GreatOrmondStreetHospital to take sick 11-month-old son
Charlie to the US
for experimental therapy.

Where’s the justice in that?

David Spencer, of the Centre For Crime Prevention
think-tank, said:

‘These men have been convicted of some truly abhorrent
offences and it beggars belief that they are now able to run up even bigger
taxpayer-funded bills making spurious appeals in an effort to extend their stay
in the UK. These men clearly pose a threat to public safety. If someone is born
overseas and commit such crimes in the UK, it is absolutely right that
their citizenship should be revoked.’

The people of the United Kingdom are very tolerant, we have
a great history of helping others in need, however we have seen many people
abuse that trust and in the case of Shabir Ahmed, 64, the ringleader of the
Rochdale child sex gang, Abdul Aziz, Adil Khan and Abdul Rauf, they should be
sent back to Pakistan.

In February, Britain’s
most senior immigration judge Mr Justice McCloskey, president of the Upper
Immigration Tribunal, rejected the human rights grounds on which the men based
their appeals. But they have now been granted permission to continue their
fight at the Court of Appeal.

At times like this, we should be thankful that there is Article
8.2 and judges who understand the law and ultimately justice, it is the right
decision by Judge Mr Justice McCloskey and we should fully support this
important decision.

No one from a foreign country should have anything to fear
in this country if they obey the law and do not commit crime, they aren’t
expected to maintain a higher standard just the same standard that the rest of
us do as a matter of course.

The end of freedom of movement is essential, not just for
the UK
but also for the rest of the European Union. When the EU was relatively small,
freedom of movement wasn’t a problem, not that the EU has grown to 28 member
states, it is very much a problem of epic proportions.

Freedom of movement has been abused; it has lead to flight
from poorer countries to rich countries so that migrants can access the
benefits system. One of the other drawbacks is that freedom of movement has led
to criminal gangs setting up operations such as prostitution and the epidemic
which organised begging gangs in our cities.

Once freedom of movement ends, these criminal gangs and
their offshoots should see the end of their operations by way of deportation
back to their home country!

Immigration is a good thing, too much however is a bad thing;
increased competition directly affects those at the bottom of society and
unduly increases the pressure on them in so many ways.

Freedom of movement restricts social mobility and choice of
indigenous people when the influx cannot be halted because of the way the EU
has been setup. The EU is as I have publicly said anti worker and anti country.
The solution to Freedom of Movement is what I suggested a long time ago, the EU
needed an internal immigration policy in order to regulate the flow of people.
This idea probably would have saved Britain’s membership of the EU but the
people who run the EU aren’t open minded, their deeds and actions speak for
themselves.

One thing which did tremendous damage to the UK was the lie
used by the Labour Party under Tony Blair to increase immigration as part of a social
engineering experiment, multiculturalism is a failure. People like Trevor
Phillips and even Angela Merkel have acknowledged this failure publicly.

I don’t subscribe to the view that the UK Government’s
immigration policy is “a shambles” because of the move towards end the freedom
of movement after Britain
leaves the European Union in March 2019, it needs to happen. Brandon Lewis, the
Immigration Minister is right to say that: “Free movement of labour ends when
we leave the European Union in the spring of 2019; we're very clear about
that." Although there is talk of a transitional or implementation period
for up to three years in terms of trade, the political enactment of the ‘direct
democracy’ vote must be respected.

When freedom of movement ends does that mean immigration
ends?

The answer is no, Britain will still allow
immigration; we will see a system which is more in tune with the needs of the
country and the people. The scare story of the NHS being crippled because of
deportation of EU nationals is a made up story, these people and their jobs in
whatever capacity from surgeon to hospital porter aren’t in any danger.

These people are welcome, and they were never unwelcome
previously.

There are outstanding issues regarding other parts of Brexit
such as free trade and single market access but as long as the direction of
travel is maintained in accordance with the wishes of the British people, the transitional
or implementation period for up to three years will probably be allowed to go
through.

Labour’s Pat McFadden, a former Europe
minister, speaking on behalf of Open Britain, a pro EU campaign group said
about the end of freedom of movement:

“This is a shambles”.

He added:

“Only hours after the Home Secretary announces there will be
no cliff edge when we leave the EU, her Immigration Minister announces a
definite end to freedom of movement from March 2019”.

Looking him up on wiki, I came across this:

“he was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Social Exclusion at the Cabinet Office”.

So, now he wants to see freedom of movement continue which
the direct result results in Social Exclusion for people at the bottom of
society.

All I can say is ……… what a cunt!

This is the type of bastard which should be booted out of
politics altogether; he clearly by his speech has no real concerns about the
state of this country and the break down of social cohesion. He needs removed
from his ‘ivory tower’ and face the harsh reality of living in places like
Slough or Govanhill as it is now and then experience what the effects of the disaster that is
freedom of movement has caused in these places.

There will be a new immigration system in place from the
spring of 2019 and that this would be outlined in an Immigration Bill that will
go through Parliament next year, the Bill should be about fairness
and if there is an argument let it be about the rules and not as we have at
present, a free for all.

There is a quiet war going on in the Labour Party, the war
tends to shows that there isn’t just a difference of opinion but of who should
lead the Labour Party. The Labour Party has been brought to its knees by the
right wing of the party. These people are the careerists who can into power
through the university route, people such as Blair. They used the fact that
there was a traditional Labour vote to extend their influence and more
careerists joined and took advantage of the fact.

The Labour Party in Scotland got wiped out in 2015 and
2016, it was dramatic, and continual evidence of the fact that people were
willing to reject the party because there was a lack of help from the elected
people. Having been brought to its knees, the way became clear for someone like
Jeremy Corbyn to win the leadership with a big majority.

His election was a rejection of the careerists who failed
not just the party but the people. In response to the right wing, the group
momentum came along, they are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and anti what some
call the ‘Blair faction’ or ‘progress’ as it is better known. In Scotland, the
Corbyn factor in terms of leadership isn’t installed and the party has Kezia
Dugdale. Momentum wants her replaced, and although she has a few allies, the
winds of change and the determination of momentum aren’t going away anytime
soon.

In order to change the Labour Party in Scotland, the
momentum crowd need to replace the ‘gatekeepers’, these people are living on borrowed
time, when Edinburgh MP Ian Murray created a stir by resigning and
refusing to work with Jeremy Corbyn, it was a betrayal, done publicly. Murray is an ally of
Kezia Dugdale and her anti Corbyn stance hasn’t been forgotten or indeed
forgive; forget unity, it doesn’t exist.

If you are in the Labour Party, you hold a membership but
there are two Labour Parties running within it, either you are pro Corbyn or
pro Progress, and to be fair, you might not like either option because there
isn’t much in the way of middle ground.

Edinburgh MP Ian Murray is said to be becoming the Chairman
of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, he got the position due to the help
of a group of moderate Scottish Labour peers, ‘moderate’ is a termed used by
the Blair faction. If there is a Corbyn government, it will require
considerably more Labour MPs to be elected n Scotland, and given the state of
the party, it isn’t going to be in the numbers required, for there to be more
Labour seats, the SNP has to keep doing the same disastrous course under Nicola
Sturgeon. There is a possible two seats which could fall in Glasgow, GSW and GE,
these hang by a thread; the SNP know this hence they are deeply worried as
their squealing like pigs diatribe of late shows.

Mhairi Black’s recent plea for ‘progressive’ Labour
supporters to work with the SNP was an attempt it seems to me to ‘manage’ the
voters’ intentions to keep SNP cult members in a job.

The SNP is shitting themselves silly, over their future employment
prospects, rather like waiting for the axe to fall, as you are kneeling at the
block! They know it is a case of when
and not if, they thought they were the embedded new establishment and now they
have a wake up call in 2017.

So, what does Edinburgh MP Ian Murray becoming Chairman
of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party mean?

It means nothing, it is a temp measure, finger in the dyke,
it is a one step forward and two back because the Labour Party and Momentum have
an agenda, they will keep pushing and pushing. The hope for the Blair faction
is to attempt to wait out Corbyn so they can get back to ‘normal’, but the
genie is out of the bottle. Corbyn in my opinion was never meant to be Prime
Minister; his job was to groom a new generation to carry on his legacy to
return the Labour Party to socialism.

Infighting in the Labour Party should keep them busy for
quite some time, there has to be a clear out, and it is doubtful that there can
be a return for the party for quite some considerable time in meaningful
numbers. There is always the question of the party activist base having
collapsed, this is a serious problem.

Finally, it isn’t a viable strategy to base your future
success on a stale SNP who have press the panic button after their support has plummeted
and gone into freefall.

Imagine getting elected because you were hated less than the
other lot, this is where the Labour Party in Scotland is sitting at the moment!

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

I have always been a film buff, when I was a kid, I was glue to the Tv set watching movies, I used to wonder how they did the special effects in movies, today the effects you see are literally mind blowing.

This is test material which I have done as I have been learning tracking so I can place objects or pictures into live action footage and then colour correct them to blend in so they look part of the scene.

The test material here is putting, the logo of the Royal Military Police onto a wall so that it looks part of the scene as the actor does her thing.

Enjoy.

I am learning motion graphics because it is going to be the next big thing in political campaigning beyond the photoshop memes and video gifs.

Not bad for someone who has had no formal training?

Finally, I would love to work on a Ridley Scott film, and I am available.

If you have learned anything about politics over the last
few years, you will know one thing about what is happening in Scotland;
everything is up in the air. You can take nothing for granted and huge success
can turn easily into epic disaster. 2015, the SNP using the tidal wave of
indyref took 56 seats at Westminster, it was a reaction to defeat, no sooner
had the SNP settled into the Commons, they started making an arse of
themselves, which translated in 2017 into losing 21 seats.

The public is fickle.

2015 vote for the SNP was an emotional vote, after all how
can you explain massive voter drops like 9,000 etc in seats, you could be
tempted to say that the opposition had ran a great campaign but in the main
that wouldn’t be accurate as luck certainly played a part, and also the
weather.

It is said that Ruth Davidson is leading a Scottish Conservative power
surge at Westminster.
Firstly, she isn’t an MP so isn’t leading anything, she doesn’t have a vote, it
is true she can claim credit for the wins, but, the public is fickle. The
Scottish Conservatives were given an opportunity, an opportunity by Unionist
voters who traditionally voted for other parties.

Those votes are on loan.

If she thinks that Theresa May needs to start winning the
battle of ideas, then it seems to me at least that if there is a battle, there
by definition needs to be troops.

Ruth Davidson has 13 troops, two of whom, I helped get into Westminster in a relatively
minor way, Paul Masterton and Bill Grant. So, Theresa May made a mistake, but
the mistake wasn’t just down to her, it was a team effort down the road, with
the Conservatives having a 20 point lead, they thought that they would win a
huge majority.

The public is fickle.

If you remember my back posts, I said, I didn’t understand the
logic of going again, to me it seemed a silly thing to do, why have a fight
with someone you don’t have to, and for little gain and much risk.

If, I was Ruth Davidson, I don’t think I would be warning Theresa
May's lieutenants that the Prime Minister owes her position in Downing
Street to the party's resurgence in Scotland. This makes her a hostage
to fortune, because if there is an upset, the entire blame rests at her feet.

And once you nail you colours to the mast, you make a rod
for your own back, I have to say her statement of her urging May to "lead
or lose" is rather odd, it certainly isn’t what I would be saying either
in private or in public. The Scottish Tory leader is arguing that “capitalism
needs a reboot”, that might be a trendy thing to say but there are also other
issues which do so as well, and they are equally as pressing.

Davidson is said to be keen to use her influence to direct
Tory policy towards a more socially liberal approach, a softer, "open Brexit"
and policies that address directly the concerns of younger voters. Corbyn
managed to get the young vote in large numbers for Labour down south.

If we are talking about a socially liberal approach, then by
definition the place to start must be the DWP and how they treat people. As to
a softer, "open Brexit", if that in any way detracts from
leaving the EU or hanging on to policies like the disaster that is freedom of
movement, that will be not acceptable to the British people. A majority voted
to leave the EU, to take back control of our laws and to restore social cohesion
which has been badly damaged not just in the UK
but also in the rest of Europe.

Some times being a leader means you need to stand back and
be a team player which is essential and also learn to not shout the odds
because sometimes things don’t need to be said.

This comment should be remembered from a well-placed insider,
they said:

“We met Gavin Barwell,[the PM’s Chief of Staff in No 10],
and made clear to him that if it wasn’t for the Scottish Conservatives, Theresa
May wouldn’t have a majority.”

Technically that is true, it is also true that the Scottish
Conservatives wouldn’t have a great result if it wasn’t for the assistance
given to them by others and also the failures of Kezia Dugdale’s leadership.

I assume we all know that bunny?

What I find funny is that the group of Scottish Conservative
MPs would not seek to bring the Government down and would loyally take the Tory
whip because they wanted to see Mrs May continue as PM “at least until the
Brexit deal is done”.

Think back to the arrogance of 2015, the SNP thought at that
point they were the new establishment, two years later the World had turned,
who is to say that after Brexit and if there is a new election the 13 Scottish
MPs would get returned again?

Their position isn’t secure by any means.

It is true to say that the public don’t like weak government
which is why the SNP under Nicola Sturgeon is doing so badly, so Ruth Davidson
saying the May Government "has to actually lead" if it wanted to
survive isn’t specific to the Conservatives.

Some time ago, I said that Ruth Davidson has her eyes firmly
fixed on Holyrood and was wanting to replace Nicola Sturgeon as
First Minister at the 2021 Scottish elections.

At present, this is wishful thinking, if you were to say
anything about what the possible outcome of 2021 at this juncture you would
have to go with hung parliament, certainly not a win for Ruth Davidson. The
Unionist card played well for the Scottish Conservatives but they need an
emotional response by voters to get their 13 MPs in the door down the road.

Can the Unionist card be used again in 2021 with success?

As to Ruth Davidson being a potential replacement down the
road for the Conservative Party, a sunny day doesn’t make a summer, there is a
long way to go before anyone, especially the ‘men in grey suits’ sit down to
discuss her future. Apparently, there are senior Conservatives who believe Ruth
Davidson is just what the UK
party needs to boost its chances of victory at the 2022 General Election. Maybe
these senior Conservatives should pay a lot more attention to what happened to
the SNP and how success turned so quickly to disaster in about two years.

You could make a strong case that if the UK Government had
done more to control immigration which was breaking down social cohesion in the
UK;
then perhaps the Brexit vote would have had a different outcome. Clearly some
people were focused on the problem of immigration into the UK and the situation in mainland Europe only served to heighten their fears.

If you asked an ordinary reasonable person what kind of
immigration would they like to see, you would probably find they are in favour
of a points based immigration system where the needs of the country are met.
Being part of the EU and the disastrous freedom of movement cause a breakdown,
the EU needed to have an internal immigration policy because at 28 member
states it had become too big.

Freedom of movement for work in theory seems a good thing;
the problem was the lack of will to address the other baggage which came along
with it. The use of freedom of movement allowed criminality and other
unpleasant anti social issues to thrive.

The rich, famous and trendy lefties all love immigration,
come one come all, but they generally don’t live in the areas where immigration
has caused problems, places like Govanhill in Glasgow which has been turned
into a modern day slum ghetto where people struggling to get out cannot get
decent market value for their homes. It is know that the wealthy tend to stay
in predominantly exclusive white areas with very little immigration impact.

Their live is idyllic, then they dress down come on the TV
in a slum area and preach to the rest of the population and lecture people on
not being racist, these type of people believe in an open door policy. Recently
George Clooney the actor was banging on about immigrants are welcome, then we
find out that he is packing up his wife and kids to retreat being the Atlantic
Wall that is America because he doesn’t think it is safe in the UK.

George Clooney is a hypocrite.

Controlling post-Brexit immigration is said to be a
struggle for the Government if it continues to rely on "woefully
inadequate" information this is according to a House of Lords report.

I don’t see this as a struggle, no one should be able to
board a flight or boat or train to another country without a visa allowing them
entry. The Government needs to bring in a points based system which is fair,
lawful and meets the need of the country. If simple measures are brought in and
the asylum scams are ended then social cohesion can be established again over
time. No one claiming asylum should be allowed to walk the streets of this country,
everyone should be detained without exception. One of the other reasons for the
Brexit vote was the abuse of human rights law to circumvent the system by
asylum seekers claiming they are children or homosexual, this was seen by some
as a way of getting a free ticket into the UK, once in these people would
simply disappear.

This type of abuse made many people very angry which is why
17 million plus voted to leave the UK, and of course matters weren’t
helped by threats from Angela Merkel and the EU to punish members who didn’t
follow their orders.

What many people must be puzzled at is how in this day and
age, is how any Government hasn’t put in place a system to monitor how many
migrants enter or leave the country each year, or how long they stay. In places
like Germany,
if you wish to stay, you need to register.

The rules are important because without the rule of law
there is chaos, so when opposition politicians or trendy lefties scream about ‘come
one, come all’, these people only show their ignorance and stupidity, this is
calling virtual signalling, basically that is ‘look at me, I am a good person’.

I agree with Lord Forsyth of Drumlean when he said:

"The Government must have reliable statistics on
migration before it formulates new policy, otherwise it will be making crucial
decisions - of vital importance to the country's businesses - in the dark”.

After all this is pretty reasonable, acting on information
is much better than having to guesstimate.

One of the reasons for the SNP wanting freedom of movement to
continue is that it is part of their doomed bid for independence, they haven’t
worked out that no one is going to vote for independence with them in charge.
Once that gem sinks in they will realise that are trying to lead people who
want nothing to do with them. 2015 was an election based on emotion, 2017 saw a
step towards logic, and logic dictates that the SNP aren’t stronger for
Scotland, quite the opposite, apparently polling suggests that at the next
election, from 35 seats, the SNP could be knocked down to 12 seats.

The joke at present to distract people is the SNP trying to
act like they are knowledgeable and has all the answers; they might have
answers, but they are answering the wrong questions.

An example, for far too long, the SNP have been running a disastrous
education programme, one of the most important things that any civilised
country must do is invest in the education of its indigenous people. The SNP
cuts to colleges goes well beyond the education market, it impacts business and
it also directly impacts people and communities which is why I said that there
should be ‘four tier’ Education. Four tier Education is about providing
opportunities to people to advance their skills, they get better jobs, they pay
more taxes, they are happier and have a future.

Lord Forsyth also mentioned that “the employment of migrant
workers could lead to businesses neglecting skills and training for British
workers”.

I blogged on this for years and years and years in my back
posts!

When need skilled people such as nurses, doctors and
dentists etc etc, we can get these people through training up our own people
and by immigration, the market which all these people come from is education.

At some stage, there will due to pressure be measures to
address the education gulf in this country, on both sides of the border, and to
be honest that can’t come soon enough.

Years ago, I said when “people have no future there is no
tomorrow”, and it is time that people put pressure on politicians to start to
deliver on that concept or risk being put out on the street. Corbyn recognised
that ‘free tuition’ is essential to Britain, not as an election gimmick
but also as away of righting an injustice.

The Conservatives need to bite the bullet on getting Brexit
sorted, a points based immigration system and also making education a priority
and preferably free, although as we know, it isn’t, the taxpayer picks up the
tab.

The Scottish National Party if it is about anything is about
self interest and personal wealth. When Angus Robertson lost his seat, many
people in Scotland
rejoiced as this pompous fool was kicked out by the electorate.

It was good, a night of celebration which also saw Alex
Salmond, even more pompous than Robertson get slotted, their agony was even
more severe as they both lost to Scottish Conservatives.

The failure for the worse SNP defeat in living memory rests
with Scotland’s
own ‘Poundland’ Angela Merkel, unpopular Nicola Sturgeon.

As Robertson got slotted there became a vacancy for leader,
with a pool of stagnant talent to choose from, Ian Blackford emerged as the person
to be the new SNP leader at Westminster.

If you think back to my previous posts, I highlighted the
four groups that make up the SNP Cult, rich, muslim, homosexual and sein fein
lite, Blackford is out of the rich clique. Having become leader, he hasn’t made
an impact, he never will, his position is time sensitive, you see at some point
Ian Blackford is going to lose at the ballot box possibly in the next election.

Many SNP MPs hang by a thread, they must know whether there
is an election in 5 years or less, they are out the door, especially in Glasgow which saw Anne
McLaughlin defeated recently. Some in Glasgow
hang by less than a 100 votes, Glasgow East and Glasgow South West being two
seats which presumably Scottish Labour will target along with holding Glasgow
North East.

Blackford is in my opinion not a full time MP because he has
made clear he will not be giving up his lucrative extra-parliamentary financial
interests.

My view is that no MP in any party should have secondary
paid employment, I think this is one of the major things which is massively
wrong with our democracy, it is an outrage. Blackford probably knows that his
position isn’t secure by any means, it is undermined by SNP stupidity on
indyref 2, so he wants to keep raking in almost £50,000 a year on top of his
£75,000 MP’s salary.

You can understand his logic; he knows he will be kicked out
so why give up a steady and profitable earner.

Blackford said:

“I have been a hard-working MP and I will continue to be so.
I do think there is a benefit from MPs having experience of life. The fact that
I have had interests in business are something, which have helped shape my
ability to make sure I can deliver as an MP.”

This is nonsense, it is just meaningless prattling, maybe he
can expand and explain how his interests in business tied in with the people on
benefits or people with other problems such as housing issues?

The fact is wider experience may or may not be useful.

If we look at this statement by him:

“My priority is, firstly, to represent my constituency and,
secondly, to represent the SNP here in Westminster
as group leader and I work extremely hard to ensure that I deliver on both of
those priorities.”

What happens on a day that his outside interests which make
him money clash with his SNP duties? Anyone daft enough to think he will
endanger his £50,000 a year, it isn’t
like his MP salary can be affected by anyone.

The issue of MPs’ outside interests has been a bone of
contention for years because it saw many people in most parties basically abuse
public trust and the system of democracy.

In 2015, Labour failed to get MPs’ second jobs
banned which is why they should make this a commitment in any future manifesto,
no more ‘guns for hire’.

Pete Wishart whose job hangs by a mere 21 votes said MPs
should have one master, declaring:

“There should be no second jobs, no paid directorships, no
outside interests with a financial return.”

I agree with him but I don’t see the political will to enact
such a measure.

Maybe if there is a future Labour Government under Corbyn
this matter can be looked at again, however if a careerist like Blair clone
Owen Smith gets in, nothing will change.

Blackford can make 3,000 a month for eight hours’ work per
quarter as Chairman of Golden Charter Trust Ltd, nice work if you can get it
eh? He obviously has an eye on the future and his future as an MP is looking
bleak.

To you, it is pretty important, but to others, it is less
so, have you noticed that there is a tendency in our society that certain
people’s opinions seem to be valued more than others, as their status gives
them some kind of alleged special insight.

If you are an ordinary joe blogs then you are pretty much
deemed not to have special insight, in fact you are considered stupid, someone
who is to be ‘managed’ because in reality, you can’t be trusted to think for
yourself.

This is the arrogance of the political and academic elite;
you call it the ‘old boys’ network’ or the ‘glass ceiling’.

The press seem to have subscribed to this idea as they seek
to shape public opinion, because in many ways they also think that you as an
ordinary punter can’t think for yourselves either, you need their help.

The migrant crisis was the straw that ‘broke the camel’s
back’ with British people, it showed clearly that the uncaring, unelected
political elite of the EU held the ordinary people of Europe in such utter
contempt, it had to be fought against. The situation in Europe
may not be getting the same coverage as before, but the bulk of the problems
are ongoing.

This story is interesting, it is interesting because it
brings down the migrant crisis to a personal level; how it impacts a community
and the aftermath. Vincenzo Lionetto
Civa, mayor of Castel'Umberto in Sicily, led a revolt to prevent a few dozen new
migrant arrivals from taking up residence in an abandoned hotel Tensions over
migration are running high in Italy, and are expected to get worse. There will
be violence; the slide towards this is already in motion. I can see a time were
European countries will become not just politically unstable but also in terms
of social cohesion. If the EU army goes ahead, these people will be used to
suppress internal dissent. From these circumstances will come the real slide undoubtedly
towards civil war, and all that goes with it, domestic terrorism will be the
new threat that develops in future years in Europe!

The Brexit vote was a game changer in British political
history as it showed that ‘direct democracy’, the ‘will of the people’ mattered,
the result shocked some people but not me. I knew that Britain’s time
as a member of the EU had passed its sell by date. The EU had become not an
instrument of European unity as parroted by the elites but an instrument of
oppression which tolerated no dissent from ‘mere’ member states or their peoples.

The problem is that post result, the losing side haven’t
bought into the concept, Britain
is leaving the European Union ….. totally. There is no way back, there is no
second vote, there is no scenario which will magic the result into never have
happened. There is no EU now as far as the people of Britain are concerned; the ‘event’
is over. To see scores of Scotland’s
most high- profile academics and politicians calling for last year’s Brexit vote
to be overturned is pitiful, it also shows graphically what passes for self
interest, denial of the democratic process and greed. The political and academic
elite did rather well out of the EU, they were bought off rather cheap, cheap
in comparison to their level of support. The EU was rather good at ‘buying’
support in member states of the political and academic elite.

The fig leaf to cover the anti democratic stance is wrapped
in fake concern, citing “its disastrous consequences”, to that a gang from the
worlds of politics, business, academia and the arts have signed a letter to the
press which is said to be breaking a fragile consensus accepting the
referendum.

Bollocks!

There wasn’t a fragile consensus accepting the referendum
ever, to speak in those terms is pretty much disingenuous, we have people like rent
a mouth former Labour first minister Henry McLeish; his Liberal
Democrat deputy Jim Wallace; deadbeat SNP MEP Alyn Smith; and former
Tory MEP Struan Stevenson who aren’t the future, they are the past, their time
has come and gone!

If you add in the rest of the gang which is said to be a Who’s
Who of Scotland’s intellectual elite, including historians Sir Tom Devine and
Chris Smout; former chief medical officer Sir Harry Burns; scientist and Edinburgh University
vice-principal Anne Glover; distinguished international jurist Sir David
Edward; businessman and diplomat Lord John Kerr; and trade union leader Grahame
Smith.

It all adds up to 11 people, plus the rest who were daft
enough to fight a battle already fought and lost. After doing Brexit in Glasgow, I stepped away;
my job was to get enough votes to add to the total for a win. The Leave Campaign
wasn’t perfect by any means but on the ground, a small group of people across
Scotland managed to pull off a remarkable result, short of money, short of
people and short of time, and despite all this, Scotland delivered a million
votes to add to the Brexit pot which helped take Britain out of the 40 plus
years of membership.

The Brexit talks are still at the phoney war stage as much
as I can tell, but already Dominic
Cummings, the former Vote Leave campaign chief isn’t happy he, unleashed a
tirade of criticism on Twitter against the Brexit Secretary. David Davis was branded
him “thick as mince, lazy as a toad and vain as Narcissus”. Perhaps Davis needs more help or perhaps
the political tree needs shaken up and he needs replaced. The laugh in my
opinion is the continued fake growing concern at home and abroad the UK economy is
already suffering from crippling uncertainty over its future relationship with
its biggest trading partner.

There isn’t uncertainty about a future relationship because
in the end, the people with the money will ensure that the political elite ‘fix’
the problem, you see the real leaders of the world aren’t in politics, they are
in business.

This part of their letter you will find amusing:

“We see our society, economy and politics becoming ever more
undermined due to the impact of Brexit. We recognise a narrow majority voted to
leave the European Union, but the disastrous consequences are now becoming ever
clearer – every day. Even before the UK has left the EU, we face falling
living standards, rising inflation, slowing growth and lower productivity. In a
democracy, it is always possible to think again and choose a different
direction. We need to think again about Brexit, to have a UK-wide debate about
calling a halt to the process and changing our minds.”

This sums up rather nicely the arrogance of the political
elite, they are the ones who got it wrong, they are the ones who are out of
step, as to their doom and gloom by saying, “we face falling living standards,
rising inflation, slowing growth and lower productivity”.

Did any of this never happen while in the EU?

Every working class person has seen a fall in their living
standards under the EU, we have been robbed of a decent rate of interest of our
savings in the bank, we have seen the rise of food banks, we have seen
unemployment, we have seen breakdown in social cohesion. Maybe the rich politicians
and academics living in their ivory towers have been shielded by public money
from the taxpayer but the rest of us, the ordinary people have suffered
greatly.

Their real concern is for their financial self interest.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Exiting the European
Union said:

“In one of the biggest democratic exercises in our history,
the British people voted to leave the European Union. The Government is
committed to delivering on that mandate, by building a new deep and special partnership
with our closest allies and neighbours in Europe”.

The game is over; the new challenge is to be global Britain again,
to forge closer links with the Commonwealth.

Firstly sorry for being away for a bit, I had a few personal
issues which burned up my time to the extend that blogging had to be pushed off
the agenda.

Anyway I am back!

One of the things which is an open secret is that Jeremy
Corbyn's supporters in Scotland want
to replace Kezia Dugdale as Scottish Labour leader, the Momentum crowd have an
agenda.

The question is not if Kezia Dugdale will go but when, the
rather bad and humiliating election of this year has certainly bought her
breathing space, after being wiped out in 2015, Scottish Labour being reduced
to a single MP, there are now more happy campers planted down in Westminster.

In Glasgow North East, the people rightly saw fit to give
Paul Sweeney the nod and make him their representative for the constituency, in
politics, the best man doesn’t always win but in this case, he did.

In East Renfrewshire, Scottish Labour went with Blair
MacDougall, the former BT Chief, and mistaken put resources in there as well, I
saw that as a waste of time, people and money, he limped home in third place.

One of the laughs I had after the North East campaign was
seeing this:

Anne McLaughlin who I helped put out on the street
apparently cried after losing her seat, perhaps she should have worked hard, faster
…… and smarter!

At present, the sum total as I blog this is 14 supporters
and a meagre £240 which hasn’t moved in a while, I guess the passion rather
fizzled out, 35 days left and nowhere near the £3,000 target. Personally, I
have my doubts that Anne McLaughlin will be or should be the SNP Candidate next
time round if this parliament goes the full five years.

Back to Kezia, the influential left-wing magazine, Scottish
Left Review (SLR) calls the leadership of Kezia Dugdale “woeful”. In their
opinion, they are stating quite clearly that problem isn’t just her political
leadership but also her personal leadership. They go so far as to say that:

"Labour can’t win in Scotland with Dugdale" and
“the left needs to move to remove her and do so soon".

It would be hard to pin the tail on the donkey to say
exactly where it all when wrong for Kezia Dugdale, there are so many examples
of where she was sitting on the wrong side of history in many important issues.
That said if you consider that Scottish Labour is run as a ‘team’, the
direction of travel is certainly in the wrong direction so others who advise
her also have a part to answer for in this sorry tale.

Do you know the person that says ‘No’ to Kezia Dugdale?

Presumably there must logically be someone who looks at Labour
content and says, this idea is bad, and if there isn’t why isn’t there?

The fact that there is now a socialist publication calling
for the end of Kezia Dugdale’s leadership, and wants it replaced by the left so
they can take control of the party is hardly an eye opener but as the old
saying goes when you become the story, it is time to leave.

SLR said Dugdale’s leadership was partly to blame for
Scottish Labour not winning more seats that the magazine claimed could have
kept the Tories out of power.

Okay, is this true?

The answer is ye!

The key turning point was when Kezia decided to say she
could consider voting for independence, this ensured that there would be a
Conservative revival in Scotland
at the Holyrood 2016 election and also why the Conservatives did so well at the
2017 General election.

That was Kezia Dugdale’s ‘Ratner’s moment’, where she
utterly destroyed the Scottish Labour stock price with unionist Labour voters. Jeremy
Corbyn's supporters in Scotland are on a mission, they want to "isolate
the right-wing careerists" in Labour, I see this as a term which
effectively says that ‘party within a party’, although I would imagine this
term could apply to those people who got elected and decided that they would
sit back on their Labour majorities and do nothing to help the very people who
they were elected to serve.

Right wing careerists aren’t just the only problem in
Scottish Labour.

Labour MSPs Neil Findlay and Alex Rowley said the party
could have won 15 MPs in Scotland
if it had toned down its Unionist-focused campaign and promoted Corbyn more.

That is just opinion which I don’t buy into, I gave Alex
Rowley a tip during the day he spent on the Glasgow North East campaign, he
went into the bookies, my tip was that Paul Sweeney would win that seat, and no
one else in Labour would win any other seat in Glasgow. I find it laughable that blame is
placed at the door of the "legacy of ‘Better Together", that campaign
apart from a few notable exceptions wasn’t ran properly, in fact the spin
doctor for Frank Roy who headed up the Brexit Remain campaign said he could
spent a lot of time telling people what they wouldn’t be repeating what went wrong
in that enterprise.

Better Together’s main problem was that it wasn’t properly
supported on the ground by Scottish Labour, something which I commented
repeatedly on during the indyref in 2014.

In its editorial, SLR highlighted traditional Labour areas
it claimed the party could win seats in if Dugdale was replaced.

It said:

“If Labour had done much better than its extra six seats and
2.8 per cent vote increase – like winning Aberdeen South,
Renfrewshire East, Stirling and the Ochils (which they held before but which
the Tories took) as well Airdrie and Shotts and Motherwell and Wishaw, the
Tories would have had difficulty forming any kind of government. The legacy of
Better Together and a politically and personally woeful leadership in the form
of Kezia Dugdale are the critical explanatory variables. So it is all very well
saying, as left Labour MSPs Alex Rowley and Neil Findlay and others have said,
that Labour would have done better in Scotland with more radical approach,
namely, empathising Labour’s manifesto, and one less based on opposing indyref2.
Logic then dictates that Labour can’t win in Scotland with Dugdale so the left
needs to move to remove her and do so soon. Not doing so is to ignore the
elephant in the room.”

To address the first point of winning more seats if Dugdale
was replaced, this is assuming that the replacement is better, and to be frank,
I think this opinion is too subjective to have any real value. The idea that
people are voting for Kezia or against Kezia is rubbish, most people don’t and
couldn’t name her as Scottish Labour leader. Scottish Labour’s problem doesn’t
centre round the failures and bad judgements of a single individual.

This takes credit away from so many who have done so little
while in positions of power. Remember when I said pre 2015 that Labour needed a
clear out of useless MPs; they failed to act and paid the price.

Finally, a Scottish Labour source said:

"The author of this editorial is ill-informed and
clearly didn't read Kez's manifesto in 2016, which was the most radical in a
generation, and has absolutely no understanding of the views of the party
membership."

Maybe the verdict of 2016 has relevance as Scottish Labour
was pushed into third place at Holyrood, so the manifesto was hardly the golden
calf.